Hi Daniel and python packagers,
I've added distribute to py2[4-7], given it a Provides setuptools, and
Conflicts
setuptools.
If your package depends or builddepends on setuptools, please test it with
distribute.
-kurt
(goatbar)
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Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 10:08:19 AM
Subject: Replace setuptools-py with distribute-py?
I'm running into a problem packaging python packages that require distribute
instead of setuptools. To make matters worse, they will automatically download
distribute and try to replace an already installed setuptools! This seems to be
becoming common in the Python world. Fortunately, --build-as-nobody catches
this, but it also makes the packages uninstallable except on py31. Distribute
is
fully backward compatible with setuptools, so this shouldn't break anything,
and
in any case, setuptools is generally considered deprecated.
Now there are a few packages that have a versioned BuildDepends on
setuptools-py, so simply relying on Provides: setuptools-py%type_pkg[python]
won't work unless we change those to unversioned BuildDepends. The other
possibility is to make an empty dummy setuptools-py%type_pkg[python] package
that simply Depends on distribute (and add 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 types). That would
be the least work.
Thanks
Daniel
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